Bottle-holder



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J. W. SHEPARD.

BOTTLE HOLDER.

No. 546,033. Patented Sept. 10, 1895 Wiigcsszs UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

JERRY \V. SHEPARD, OF- AURORA, ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE- HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming of Letters Patent No. 546,033, dated September 10,1 395.

Application filed April 6, 1895.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JERRY W. SIIErARn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Aurora, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Ilottlollolder, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improvement in devices for holdingnursing-bottles.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple and cllicientholder or device for supporting a nursing-bottle and attaching the sameto a pillow, whereby the bottle is prevented from slipping out of thereach of the infant.

To this end the invention consists in an improved bottle-holding devicemade from any suitable fabric and provided at one end with a loop-hemadapted to receive a safety or other pin for attaching the device to apillow and provided at its other end with a bottlecontaining loop havingone or more pieces of elastic webbing providing for bottles of differentsizes and adapted to embrace and securely grasp the bottle forpreventing its escape; also, in certain features and details ofconstruction and arrangement; of parts, as hereinafter fully described,illustrateddn the drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of animproved bottleholding device constructed in accordance with thisinvention. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the manner in which theimproved device is applied and used in practice.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings, the main body of the bottle-holding device(indicated at']) is made from any suitable or preferred fabric ormaterial, and said material is preforably doubled upon itself andstitched together at its opposite edges, thereby atfording a doublethickness of the material used and greatly increasing the strength anddurability of the device. At oneend the body 1 is made tapering or withconverging side edges and is provided with a loop-hem formed by turningover the end upon itself and running one or more rows of stitchestransversely across the same, as shown. This loop-hem (desig- Scrial No,544,786. (No niodeld nated by the reference-numeral 2) is adapted toreceive the lower arm or base of an ordinary safety-pin 3, by means ofwhich the device as a whole may be securely attached to a pillow, asshown in Fig. 2. Intermediate the ends of the main body portion l'thesame is provided with a (lap or extension-piece l, which is alsopreferably made of a double thickness of the same material as the body 1and stitched to the main body by one or more transverse rows ofstitches, as shown in Fig. l. The main body portion 1 at its lower end,or the end opposite to that on which the loop hem is formed, is foldedoversl'ightly upon itsell, as indicated at 5, and between the. inneradjacent edgesot' the [tap it and the overturned lower end 5, justreferred to, are sccured two oppositely-disposed pieces of clasticwebbing 6, located at or near the oppt3- site side edges of the deviceand preferably stitched at their ends between the two thicknesses of thellap and overturned lower portion 5.

In practice the bottle-holding device do scribed is to be attached toapillow by means of the safety-pin 3, after which the bottle of milk isinserted into the elastic loop or pocket, where it is held by means ofthe elastic webs (i. The bottle 'is thus prevented from slipping out ofthe reach of the child when using the cling-fast or any similar nipples.The device above described is extremely simple and convenient, may bequickly applied to and removed from the pillow, will' cll'ectuallyprevent the bottle from slipping out of the reach of an infant, and willalso prevent the bottle from falling upon the floor or against hardobjects and becoming broken.

It will be apparent that changes in the form, proportion, and the minordetails of construction may be resorted to without; departing from theprinciple or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

Having thus described-the invention, what is claimed as new, and desiredto be secured by Letters Patent, is-

l. A flexible holder for nursing bottles, the same being composedentirely of textile material and comprising an open loop shaped pocketwhich is divided transversely, elastic webbing introduced between andconnecting, the adjacent edges of the pocket formed by such transversedivision thereof, and a lateral extension of said pocket formed with a,loop hem for the reception of a. securing device by means of which thebottle holder may be attached to a pillow or other support,substantially as specified.

2. A holding device for nursing bottles comprising a. main body portionprovided at one end with a loop hem for the reception of a safety pinadapting the device to be applied to a, pillow or other support, a,lower overturned or folded portion, a flap or extension piece stitchedto the main body portion intermediatethe ends thereof, and twooppositely disposed pieces of elastic webbing interposed between andconnected to the inner adjacent edges of the flap or extension piece andthe lower folded or turned over portion ofthe main body portion,substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JERRY W. SHEPARD.

\Vitnesses:

LEO GOODWIN, FRANK 1;. WATSON.

